Workshops and Clinics

A key part of achieving our mission of expanding the awareness of both jazz and poetry is our work with high schools and colleges in workshops and clinics.  
This is the curriculum for an upcoming two-day workshop in a Southern California high school.
 
 
  1. Jazz Voices of Poetry will present two concerts – approximately 90 minutes each.  The first will consist of our original songs written to published poetry.  The second will be a concert of standards from the Great American Songbook.
  2. In advance of the workshop we will send a designated member of the faculty the poems for the first concert so that literature classes may study them.
  3. Prior to the concert we will hold a clinic on a selected number of songs to be sung, and how they were written, developed and arranged.
  4. On the second day Clairdee and Nicolas will hold a master class on jazz singing.
  5. Ken will do a master class on jazz piano.
  6. During the second concert students who play or sing jazz will have an opportunity to join the performers on stage.